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3651. Get Your Third Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... They were to leave their homes and travel to the corners of the world proclaiming the gospel message. They were to look outward. Dr. Harry Ironside used to tell a story about a group of dissidents who left a church to begin what they hoped would be the “perfect church.” The new congregation considered themselves to be such a spiritual blessing to God that they put a sign outside their church: “JESUS ONLY!” The church didn’t reach out to their community; however, they only ministered to themselves ...

3652. Partners In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of the sacrifice Christ made for us. If loving people who are not like us is difficult, imagine a holy God giving up His Son for unholy humanity. We began this meditation telling about a young man helping a paraplegic friend scale the face of a great mountain. I hope it causes you to think of what Christ did for us on Calvary. He came into this world of sin and death, sorrow and suffering, for one purpose ” to lift us up. And now he calls us into a partnership. We are partners with him and with believers ...

3653. Roll Call

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... go!" For many of us life is one long battle for control. First with our parents, then with our teachers, then with our employers ” even with ourselves. That is the humbling effect of a bad habit. We discover we can't even control ourselves. We have only one hope ” to yield to God's control.When we are able to do that, we can rest assured that God will take care of us. William Hinson recalls the time when his children were younger and one child's pet died. Dr. Hinson says that he practiced "replacement ...

3654. Gaining A Gratitude Attitude

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... Divine. It is a means by which we not only make known our requests of Him, but He also makes known His requests of us. St. Paul understood and lived that kind of prayer. He was connected to the source of all power, all love, all hope. St. Paul had a gratitude attitude, first of all, because he sincerely believed in prayer. ST. PAUL ALSO FOCUSED ON THE POSITIVE IN LIFE. Listen to these memorable words from our text: "Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is ...

3655. Trying To Get The Pageant Right!

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... chorus from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. This scared the donkey. By this time everyone was laughing. Organizers vowed never again to put on a Christmas pageant. "The memory of the laughter outlives the memory of the hassle," Fulghum writes of the experience. "And hope - hope always makes us believe that this time, this year, we will get it right." (1) CHRISTMAS IS ABOUT THE UNEXPECTED. I read about another pageant recently. This was a children's pageant. The innkeeper was played by a boy named Ralph who had ...

3656. Someone Is Calling In The Night

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... decided whether or not to hire her. One thing Ruth was certain about was that she didn't want to leave her own apartment. She was hoping a job would come up and she would not have to move. Time was short and she was in a panic. One day Ruth was reading ... . And that was exactly what she did. She learned to wait on the Lord. I would like to say that everything worked out as she had hoped. It did not. She had to move in with a relative for a while. Although this was not what she wanted, she felt sure she was ...

3657. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... Consider Jesus' approach. By night fall word had spread throughout the town that Jesus was there and that he had the power to heal people. By dusk Mark says the whole city was at Simon's house looking for Jesus. They brought their sick, "with various diseases," hoping that he would be able to heal them. The disciples had never seen such a crowd. With all those people Jesus must have been exhausted. It was probably late when they all left. Yet early the next morning, before anyone in the house woke up, Jesus ...

3658. Getting Your Attention

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , 1991, p. 43. 2. Paul Harvey, "For What It's Worth," July 18, 1979, p. 73. Contributed by Wayne Rouse. 3. USA TODAY, May 1993, p. 4. 4. A LIFE THAT BECOMES THE GOSPEL. Thomas R. Hawkins. Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1992, pp. 24-25. 5. HOPE FOR THE TROUBLED HEART. Billy Graham. Minneapolis: Grason, 1991, pp. 10-11. [ORIGINAL SERMON] CBS News anchor Dan Rather tells about attending a revival as a boy in his home town of Bloomington, Texas. It was a spectacular extravaganza the whole town attended. The tent ...

3659. Passage To New Life

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... cheeks, Jesus tells her, "Go to my brothers and say to them, I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary then left the graveyard to return with the good news: "I have seen the Lord!" Because Jesus conquered death, Mary had new hope, new meaning, and new life. I want to tell you now about a man named Racehoss Sample. Life was not easy for Racehoss: his mother never said a kind word to him while he was growing up. She never showed him love or affection. So he grew up angry, and ...

3660. Unlocking The Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... when they~re alone. For whatever reason Thomas wasn't with the rest of the group when Jesus appeared that first Easter evening. And when the other disciples caught up with Thomas, they told him that they had seen the risen Jesus. They were filled with excitement and hope. Thomas wasn't quite sure he understood. He was trying hard to make sense out of their story, but what they told him was just too good to be true. It wasn't quite that Thomas didn't believe his friends, but he was a realist. He wasn ...

3661. Who Is He?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He had just gotten back from Hawaii, and was driving home with one of his associates. But somehow they became separated at a gas station. It was well past dark, and, not knowing what else to do, Graham walked to a nearby 24-hour cafe and ordered soup, hoping that his friend would come looking for him. The other people in the cafe were all locals, and they watched Graham suspiciously. It was nearly the middle of winter, and he was the only one there with a tie and a tan. After he had finished eating Dr ...

3662. Wrong About Christ

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... March, when many other soldiers died. While Lawton was a prisoner, the Japanese moved him around regularly with other prisoners. On one of these moves, there were many men loaded onto a crowded freight train. They were hungry, thirsty, ill, and had lost almost all hope. They were unsure of what would happen to them and didn't know where they were going. Many of them were questioning whether the price they were paying for trying to help the Philippines was really worth it. The train had to make several stops ...

3663. People Who Dread Christmas

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... look for a familiar promise, but it ended with Malachi. There was no Gospel and no promise of hope and salvation, and he could only bow his head and weep with her in bitter despair. Two days later he stood beside her coffin and conducted the ... funeral service. There was no message of consolation, no hope of heaven. (5) Christmas really is a sad joke without Christ. We can put up lights and sing carols and attend services, but ...

3664. Jeremy And Jesus

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. There would come a time when both Elizabeth and Mary would have to entrust their sons to God. They knew their children were a gift from God. Regardless of what followed, they knew their children were always in God's care. That was their greatest hope and it is your hope and mine too with regard to everyone we love. This Christmas let us affirm our faith in the God of Elizabeth and Mary and their two sons who changed the world. *A Child Shall Lead Them, Marie L. Pemberton (from THE OBLATES OF MARY).

3665. The Repentant Heart

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Timothy Smith

... and his guest. King David was appalled by this. Who would do such a horrendous thing? David told Nathan, "I swear by the living LORD that the man who did this ought to die!" The case touched David's emotions in a powerful way. That was exactly the reaction Nathan hoped for. Remember, David was a shepherd. David spent a lot of time with sheep before he became king. David's heart went out to the poor man and his family. Who ever did such a thing ought to die or at least "pay back four times as much as he ...

3666. Empowered By Angels

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... day, spoke to me of the grandeur of the Creator and his good intentions for the world and its people. This gave me hope and a sense of harmony." It was forbidden to look out the window, and soon his captors caught him. To prevent this from ever happening again ... , Weir's chain was made significantly shorter, but the memory and hope of that scene continued to live on in his soul. That memory, like an angel from God, sustained him in his hour of ...

3667. Freedom's Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... free." It made no sense. But that really wasn't the point, was it? Nobody really wanted freedom, or resolution, or peace to come for the man. That isn't why they watched! It was the thirst for freedom that was important. The craving. The longing. The hoping. The scheming. The new plans and counter-plans each week. Freedom is a thirst. And the quest of freedom itself is a driving force in our lives. That's what Paul was facing with the Galatian Christians. They had thirsted for freedom, for life, for love ...

3668. Why Do We Call Him Good?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... are all neighbors, for you and I share the same physical, emotional, and spiritual distress. In the parable Jesus asked us to realize that the individual along the side of the road hurts as much as you or I have in a similar circumstance. Jesus hopes we will entertain the weary traveler's agony as our own. Actress Ann Jullian's struggle with cancer and her resulting double mastectomy has been much publicized. She allowed her story to be told to encourage and support others who are enduring a similar ailment ...

3669. Why We Believe In God

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... . BECAUSE THE MEANING OF OUR LIVES IS ALWAYS BIGGER THAN OUR EXPERIENCE. Faith, says the scripture, faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. The meaning of our lives is always bigger than our experience. Remember the games ... pilgrimage here, then what was the good of it? Says the Apostle Paul when they asked him that question, "If, for this life only, we hope in God, then we are to be pitied more than all men!" But life is more than just this short race. And we know it ...

3670. Responding Instead Of Reacting

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

Dr. B. Bruce Humphrey

... will be broken. Babylon will be defeated so that we will be victorious and live at peace within two years." Jeremiah stuttered and stammered. He didn't know what to say. His only reaction was to answer sarcastically, "A-men! Go ahead, tell everybody that. I hope you are right!" Not knowing what to say, he went home. When Jeremiah got home, he rethought that whole conversation. Have you ever done that? Have you ever thought, "Boy, I wish I had said such and such...." I suspect Jeremiah laid in bed at night ...

3671. Life From God's Perspective

John 12:12-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... for most of the summer. It was a difficult time for her, she writes, "I've never felt so empty and afraid." One August evening she wrote in her diary, "Lord, have You left me too?" An unusual chain of events took place. Her brother invited her out to dinner hoping to cheer her up. On their way they ran into one of his friends who asked to join them. Later, the man who joined them for dinner, Paul, would ask Margaret out on a date. Months passed and in early autumn Paul asked Margaret to marry him. They went ...

3672. Facing Up To The Giant Task Of Life

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... for a sound. Finally, as they dug closer, to where they believed they would be found, they heard something. It was as quite as a chapel in the darkness of the mine, and as they listened they heard the men singing: "O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home!"(3) Now listen closely, I want to share the good news this morning that to all of us who feel like quitting when the giant tasks of life seem so overwhelming, that God will give ...

3673. A Date With Destiny

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... and his commitment. And his daughter Meg tries to convince him to waffle on his promises this time. But he tells her: "When a person makes a promise, Meg, he puts himself in his hands like water. And if he opens his fingers to let it go, he need not hope to find himself again!" Read again those words in verses 32-34. Who are you? You're known by the promises you keep! That's who you are! And then there's the fifth reason Christians are faithful people: THEY HAVE SUCH A RICH HERITAGE OF EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW ...

3674. Special Delivery

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... Gospel, the Message! In the best sense of the word, Mary and Joseph became angels! That's what this season of the year is really all about, and that's what this church is all about, as well. To hear the Message of God's Good News of love and hope and renewal and life, sent SPECIAL DELIVERY from heaven by way of the angels, and then turning those who hear it into angels of good news to others. About the year 575, something like that happened to a man named Gregory. He was in the market square of Rome one ...

3675. Humility You Can Be Proud Of

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... as his many contributions to humanity were lauded. When it was his turn to speak, he said that he had stopped letting such honors go to his head. "I just got a call from a fellow who said I'd been named Man of the Year by his organization," Hope said, "because I was America's outstanding citizen, greatest humanitarian, and so forth. It was going to be the biggest dinner, biggest civil reception ever. I told him I was sorry, but I was going to be tied up that night. There was a short pause. Then the caller ...

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